Micro.blog
Moving my personal blog and a new RSS feed URL (goodbye and thanks Micro.blog)
Hey :)
This is just a quick update on this post- RSS feed changes
I’m moving from Micro.blog to a new platform.
- I am going to be moving to a new blogging platform this weekend (for my personal blog). Maybe tonight. It just depends how things go.
- The aeryn.me domain will be moved to the new platform too.
- The new feed URL will be at https://aeryn.me/feed/.
- If you wish to continue to follow this blog in your feed reader, you will need to add it again because I am unable to add feed redirects on the new platform.
- My Micro.blog-hosted site will remain live for some more months whilst I continue migrating posts. But will eventually disappear, I expect.
- I do not intend to delete my account (I want to preserve timeline posts) but will let it lapse back to a free account.
- I will most likely not be posting to Micro.blog anymore. 🤷♀️
- I am now microblogging on Mastodon and still adding Micro.blog folks there gradually. I love that I can continue to follow, although there does feel like some distance now, which is a shame.
- I cross-post from Mastodon to Bluesky too.
Lastly, although I will potentially write about Micro.blog again in the future, I just want to say thank you to Manton, support people, and the community. Thanks for making me feel welcome and being generally a friendly, supportive, and wholesome place.
Bye and see you around
Aeryn x
Edit to add: I think I may have figured out a RSS redirect at the new place. Not sure.
RSS feed changes
Hey,
I am migrating this blog (aeryn.me) to a new platform soon. And all existing RSS feeds will break.
I have set up a feed redirect on the current platform. If you would like to continue to follow my blog, please subscribe this new URL.
The new feed URL will be: https://aeryn.me/feed/
This URL will be the Atom feed address on the new platform, and should be a valid redirect until I complete the move. But I’m not sure all RSS feed clients will happily ‘subscribe’ to a redirect, or not.
So, if you subscribe and you don’t hear anything within a couple of weeks, please check my blog again. I’ll be posting RSS/Atom feed options on the new platform once I’ve moved over.
I have a post scheduled for 9:10pm. It’s now 9:46pm and it hasn’t gone live yet.
is there a problem with Micro.blog tonight?
Insert grumpy post about Micro.blog here.
Honestly I don’t have the heart for it. I’m trying to be patient. But the level of friction is very high.
I just want things to work. I don’t want to have to repeatedly report bugs to get them to work. And I want there to be clear and unambiguous documentation and information available.
This is a test post
Testing the more tag in the Micro.blog web editor. <!—more—> Some more text.
I've been on Micro.blog for just over a year and it's time to renew for another
I have successfully downgraded my Micro.blog account to the standard plan. It was pretty seamless and easy and will take affect in a few days.
Reasons are nothing to do with the recent micro drama but mainly because I realised I just don’t really need all those features, particularly. And the standard plan represents great value.
I do believe this is a great platform, and an extremely valuable part of the Internet. But I’ve found at times it’s just a bit too glitchy and chaotic for me.
I would love to see Micro.blog become a solid, stable platform. But in my perspective, it isn’t really that at the moment. And I don’t think it’s for casual users at all. Although maybe Micro.one is.
Then again, I have no idea what it takes to keep something like this going. I can appreciate that it must be incredibly hard work.
So thanks to Manton and everyone else working behind the scenes and contributing to the platform in various ways.
I’ve really enjoyed getting to know some people a little, and beginning to feel like I’m a part of an online community again after leaving the socials behind. And I’m really glad some of the more uncomfortable features and behaviours of social media are not present here.
Here’s to another year.. 🍻
Been thinking about that micro.blog situation and how it all went suddenly, magically quiet
Very weird. 💿
I’m glad to still be here. Tho I am downgrading my account for completely unrelated reasons.
Lessons learned for me. Might write about that some time.
Gotta get my own house in order
I guess if that is what it seems to be then there won’t be any statement. That’s the way it works now. No talking, even if it’s uncomfortable. No moving forward even if it means compromising. No healing even if it hurts along the way.
I think it was handled badly by all tbh. Even tho personally I didn’t have much of a problem with the original incident. I don’t have a problem with anyone involved. Just mainly with how overly personal it became.
There were missteps all round. Yucky yucky yucky.
Stuff to think about
Oh shit! This is a big nope for me. I might be out. Not sure. Fuck.
I’d like to hear some kind of statement about this
I received my Micro.blog stickers just before Christmas. Yay! They came all the way from Oregon, from @jean. Thank you 🤩
I love Micro.blog. A lot. I think it’s awesome. And I admit that I am a chaotic person. But I find Micro.blog overly chaotic at times. And I feel like I have to double check everything just a bit too much. The posting paranoia is real.
Micro.blog feature request:
I would love to be able to mute/hide a post directly on the timeline. Very occasionally there’s something I really don’t want to see more than once. And the mute function is not going to cover it.
(This is a scheduled post to avoid making anyone paranoid)
It’s snowing on my blog! ❄️🌨️❄️
Email Subscribers
This is just a heads-up for email subscribers of the aeryn.me blog. Or people who are attempting to subscribe but are maybe having difficulties.
I’m not sure how many people are affected. And I’m surprised people are actually subscribing by email at all. I had been thinking of disabling it.
There seems to be some issue on the back end with Micro.blog (the host of this blog). They have been updating their email service recently, and apparently a couple of issues have cropped up.
This has led to me receiving regular error messages in my own inbox that seem to be related to potential subscribers having problems signing up.
I just want to let you know, Micro.blog are working on the issue and hopefully it will be resolved soon. So maybe you could try again in a few days.
Thanks for your patience. And apologies for any confusion that’s occured.
Updating categories on aeryn.me - RSS feed updates
Just a heads up for anyone following this blog by RSS. I’m updating and changing, deleting, and re-organising categories on this blog. Which will affect Category RSS feeds. These may break. I’ve already put in some redirects but maybe I missed, or messed some up. Or will do, as this will be ongoing for a little while.
The only feed that is definitely safe is the main site feed, here:
It’s been a while since I last tended to my Micro.blog sites. I have a few broken links and other things I want to fix. But also, I’m kinda content with the messiness.
I’m still getting an arty journal going (journal.aeryn.art), I set it up a while back and then immediately abandoned it.
I’m sad to see the Gluon app go. Honestly, I don’t much like the official Micro.blog app and find it’s better to just use the website. 🤷♀️
I was testing with a hosted Micro.blog website at social.micro.blog.
But I’ve deleted it now in case anyone else wants it.
“social” is a bad fit for me, lol
The Photos page plug-in for Micro.blog was just updated by @kottkrig at my request.
The update means I can now also adjust the number of columns of photos on my /photos page. The plug-in already allows for filtering by category, and the ability to show all photos in a post.
Thanks again!
I’m pleased to get a Bluesky reply show up in my Micro.blog replies. Next time I’ll have to test actually replying via Micro.blog.